Books by Alison J. Clarke

Alison J. Clarke is professor and chair of Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna and research director of the Victor J. Papanek Foundation promoting socially aware design. Formerly a senior academic at the Royal College of Art, London, Clarke has a MA with Distinction in Design History (RCA/V&A), and a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London. She is a former Smithsonian Fellow of History and author of Tupperware: the Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Smithsonian Press), optioned for the making of an Emmy-nominated USA documentary. She is a regular contributor to media (most recently the ground-breaking The Genius of Design, BBC TV), and has authored numerous articles on the ethnography of everyday design.